@hatutzeraze said:
I get that you view that particular American right as more important than all the others, but not everyone views the world as you do. MANY Americans, myself included, view other rights as more important.
Should I cheer or dance every time a conservative dies that wants to push back on a right I consider more important?
I consider the right to vote far more central to the ideals of America than the right to bear arms. Should I cheer every time a conservative judge who rules in favor of decisions that actually make it harder to vote? Should I cheer every time a judge rules against laws that make it easier to vote? Because I disagree with that judge's opinions, is that a reason why I can't treat his or her life with dignity and civility?
I say no. I absolutely shouldn't do that, and I do not agree with anybody who says that because Ruth Bader Ginsburg was of the opinion that there are reasonable restrictions on the right to bear arms that she shouldn't also be treated with dignity and civility.
I guess it also boils down to this: I also believe that there are reasonable restrictions that can be placed on the right to bear arms. Does that mean you are utterly unwilling to treat me with dignity and civility? Are you keeping your happy gifs ready for the day I die? Are you actually hoping for my death?
Is this Comic Vine forum thread a place where people can discuss things in a civil manner? I am only posting here because I assume that it is. I assume nobody here wants me dead or would cheer at my death. I know I would not do so for yours.
As an individual, you are free to opine about whatever you want, but as anyone does, you are responsible for your own choice of speech, you are responsible for the consequences of such, you just can't expect to not confront any repercussions because you just can open your mouth.
The Second Amendment does not stay in question, it's a fundamental libertarian right of self-defense or better said, a human right that should even spread to other highly developed societies such as Europe and for the simple fact that the United States has the mightiest army worldwide, one can't risk such to fall on the hands of any tyrannic leadership, as simple as that.
You as a common citizen on a daily basis, an individual that doesn't occupy those important positions, it's almost irrelevant, we're talking about a person in power, however, collectively speaking, yes, you are making yourself an accomplice for potential tyrannic rulership once the people of the nation are defenseless, those ending in oppression and finally death, those deeming the likes of you as a domestic threat, those promoting more than enough moral authority to start a civil war against those that represented a threat against the Second Amendment, supporters of hypothetical murderous commissars in the following tyrannic regime.
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"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833
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Ginsburg's death is a relief for freedom and liberty, a liberty that at the same is backed by conservative values, vice versa.
The second amendment is absolute and the gun, the weapon and the metal a total natural companion of humanity since eons of times.
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
"The gun is more than a tool, it's part of you such as you're part of him, you infuse the gun with your life esscene from day to day, the very day you touched and shot with it, your sweat, natural fats and breathe empowered by flowless adrenaline will inscribe this gun as an indispensable part of you"
-AbstractRaze
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